What and Why?
Google and now others such as Bing and Chrome offer a variety of extremely interesting mapping tools. Check out what is available. Assignment
Explore the above links.
Create a maps or mapping page.
Optional: Find two articles or videos where teachers talk about how they use any of these tools with their students. Summarize articles/videos (2-3 sentences) and hyperlink to article or video on your wiki page.
Samples: Tell what you explored, what you discovered. Include at least 6 screen shots and 1 embedded map to document and illustrate your findings. (forgot how to do a screenshot? Check out Handy Tools page in this wiki.)
Reflections: Based on what you have discovered, on your wiki page tell how you and your students might use this tool to support learning.
Due: Dec 15, 3 pm
Google maps, street view (check out Bing's street view too), what interesting webcams can you find?
Google Street View takes to the Amazon (see interactive map at bottom of this page)
Google announced that it is broadening its Street View feature to include panoramic images of Brazil's Amazon River and Rio Negro. The company is working in concert with the nonprofit Foundation for a Sustainable Amazon, which says it hopes the images will expand awareness of the deforestation affecting the region. Google executives said the project is the biggest Street View challenge since the feature was launched in 2007, adding that they will use a special off-road tricycle to pedal the cameras deep into the Amazon rain forest. BBC
Google Earth: check out what you can discover -- oceans, skies, historic, time of day, calculate distances, find webcams, earth quakes, volcanoes, ship wrecks, tagged whales and dolphins, 3D views of buildings, ancient Rome, cloud cover, Tracks4Africa, EarthWatchExpeditions and more
Google Lit Tripsshow students the places they read about. Read about Google Lit Trips
Educators at a New York school used Google Lit Trips, which combines Google Earth satellite images and literature, to enhance learning. Fifth-graders read "The Family Apart" and were able to use the Google images to follow the path of the Orphan Train, used to move homeless and abandoned children during the 19th century. One library-media specialist said students were enthusiastic about the exercise. "I've never seen them so intent," she said. "This got them to deeper learning." Edutopia magazine
Check out: //Hunger Games// by Suzanne Collins.kmz
Make Way for Ducklings
Bud Not Buddy
Esperanza Rising
Real World Math: Use Google Earth and these real world math problems to bring math alive. Lessons for grades 5-10.
Where am I? Google Voice Search now does mapping
PC users can now get directions through Google Voice Search by speaking into their computers' microphones. Such searches can be done only inside a Chrome browser, and at the moment, the service is available only in English and within the U.S. (CNET)
Ngrams (graph how frequently words are used) What our Words Tell Us (an editorial discussing how word usage has changed over time, only the first half pertains to our discussion)
Use Street View to view the Rio Negro River and Amazon River, Brazil. Drag PegMan to the darker blue sections of the river where Street View is available (near Manaus, Santarem, Itaituba and Macapa).
What and Why?
Google and now others such as Bing and Chrome offer a variety of extremely interesting mapping tools. Check out what is available.
Assignment
Due: Dec 15, 3 pm
Google Earth Pro Is Now Free -- cool classroom ideas, Feb 2015
Teaching with Google Earth: A Complete Guide to Using Google Earth in the Geoscience Classroom
Check out Google Maps Gallery
Google announced that it is broadening its Street View feature to include panoramic images of Brazil's Amazon River and Rio Negro. The company is working in concert with the nonprofit Foundation for a Sustainable Amazon, which says it hopes the images will expand awareness of the deforestation affecting the region. Google executives said the project is the biggest Street View challenge since the feature was launched in 2007, adding that they will use a special off-road tricycle to pedal the cameras deep into the Amazon rain forest. BBC
http://maps.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/grand-canyon/
https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview/grand-canyon?gl=us
Here are two new additions to The Best Online Geography Games:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/science/earth/03oceans.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&th&emc=th
Educators at a New York school used Google Lit Trips, which combines Google Earth satellite images and literature, to enhance learning. Fifth-graders read "The Family Apart" and were able to use the Google images to follow the path of the Orphan Train, used to move homeless and abandoned children during the 19th century. One library-media specialist said students were enthusiastic about the exercise. "I've never seen them so intent," she said. "This got them to deeper learning." Edutopia magazine
Check out: //Hunger Games// by Suzanne Collins.kmz
Make Way for Ducklings
Bud Not Buddy
Esperanza Rising
PC users can now get directions through Google Voice Search by speaking into their computers' microphones. Such searches can be done only inside a Chrome browser, and at the moment, the service is available only in English and within the U.S. (CNET)
Additional Resources (not all of these have to do with maps or Google, but, they are good)
Interesting video
Here is a map. Note it is interactive. It is an embeded widget. A screenshot would have been static.
View Larger Map
Use Street View to view the Rio Negro River and Amazon River, Brazil. Drag PegMan to the darker blue sections of the river where Street View is available (near Manaus, Santarem, Itaituba and Macapa).
Someplace else